July 2023 – SCIENCE & NATURE Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: ICE AGE AMERICA
Best Short Film: TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA
Best Cinematography: THE FOREST GROWING FROM THE SEA
Best Sound & Music: SANCTUARY
Best Student Film: CREATURES OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE

Best Nature Film: MONGOLIA, VALLEY OF THE BEARS

Best Science Film: A WORLD OF HURT: HOW MEDICAL MALPRACTICE FAILS EVERYONE

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

ICE AGE AMERICA, 90min., Canada, Documentary

Directed by Robin Bicknell
New archaeological discoveries from the Canadian Arctic down to Chile are pushing back the date of human arrival in the Americas to 30,000 years before the present era – approximately 15,000 years earlier than previously believed. The new dates place humans in the Americas during the Last Glacial Maximum and are rewriting the history of human migration into the Americas.

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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA, 20min., Antarctica

Directed by Andrii Andreiev
A film about a yachting expedition to Antarctica to the Antarctic Circle.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

CREATURES OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE, 18min,. UK

Directed by Hannah Jodie Alexander
Exploring one of nature’s most magical creatures. Follow us and see how they use their colour changing and shape shifting abilities to survive and thrive in the open ocean.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

THE FOREST GROWING FROM THE SEA, 40min., China

Directed by Senyang Liu
This film uses anthropomorphism? by telling the mystery of the growth of mangrove embryos, roots, leaves and flowers, the film shows the wisdom of mangroves in surviving the harsh habitat with all their strengths and the value and significance they create for the ecological environment;

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

SANCTUARY, 20min., USA,
Directed by Eric J. Carlson

His Jewish grandfather was a farmer in Germany during WWII. When the Nazi’s would come looking for him, he would lay on the ground and the sheep would gather around him, hiding and saving his life more than once. Today on a farm in Lakewood, NJ, Robert Schuster has decided to turn his grandfather’s poultry farm into a sanctuary.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

A WORLD OF HURT: HOW MEDICAL MALPRACTICE FAILS EVERYONE, 30min., USA
Directed by Viknesh Saravanan Kasthuri, Alexander Si-Yuan Homer


“A World of Hurt: How Medical Malpractice Fails Everyone” is a compelling documentary that examines the devastating impact of medical malpractice on patients, doctors, and society as a whole. The film presents three powerful stories from the perspectives of patients and doctors who have been directly affected by medical malpractice.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/a-world-of-hurt-review

MONGOLIA, VALLEY OF THE BEARS, 52min., France
Directed by Hamid Sardar


The Taiga, also known as the boreal forest, represents about 17% of the Earth’s surface and has the highest density of rivers and natural springs in the world. In Mongolia, its primary forests and pure waters have kept an entire population nomadic on its lands for thousands of years.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/mongolia-valley-of-the-bears-review

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By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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